Stop chewing red dates like that, it's such a waste.

Sweet foods enter the spleen and can tonify the spleen qi. Jujubes are sweet and neutral in nature, and can tonify the middle jiao, replenish qi, nourish the blood, and promote the production of body fluids. It is best to eat them regularly. However, different ways of eating jujubes have different effects. Below, we recommend 8 ways to double the efficacy of red dates.

Longan and Red Date Water

Red Dates Soaked in Wine

Soaking red dates in wine has a certain effect on keeping blood vessels clear. During the soaking process, the nutrient-rich organic substances in red dates are more easily dissolved in the wine. However, you must find a wine that suits you.

Red Dates Soaked in Water

Soaking red dates in water nourishes the liver and detoxifies. Experiments have shown that for people with poor liver function, drinking red date water daily for one week can increase the body's serum protein, thereby achieving the effect of protecting the liver and detoxifying.

It should be noted that the details of brewing red dates determine the level of efficacy. The skin of red dates is tough and difficult to digest. If brewed whole, it is difficult to completely dissolve the active ingredients. Therefore, it is best to break the red dates open before brewing. In addition, fresh red dates are not suitable for brewing or decocting. Because fresh red dates have a very high content of vitamin C, boiling or steeping them in hot water will severely destroy the vitamin C.

Red Dates Decocted into Congee

Red Date and Millet Congee

For people with symptoms such as anxiety, irritability, and restlessness, an appropriate amount of lily and lotus seeds can be used with red dates to regulate the body. If cooked with millet, the sedative effect of red dates can be better utilized.

Red Dates Steamed with Wood Ear Fungus

Steaming red dates with wood ear fungus has the effects of preserving youth, removing freckles, beautifying and toning the muscles, and can also relieve facial dark spots.

Select 10 red dates, 15 grams of wood ear fungus, and an appropriate amount of rock sugar. Soak the red dates in clear water for about 2 hours. The wood ear fungus can be soaked in clear water until it expands. Place them in a bowl, add clear water and rock sugar, and steam in a steamer for about 1 hour. It is very delicious.

Red Dates Decocted into Soup

Longan, Red Date, and Tremella Soup

The "Bi Xiao Fang" by Meng Shen of the Tang Dynasty records that decocting red dates, tremella, and rock sugar together into a soup can relieve coughs and moisten the lungs.

Use about half a tremella mushroom, 10 red dates, and 60 grams of rock sugar. The amount can be adjusted according to personal taste. Soak the tremella in clear water until it expands, remove the stem, tear it into small pieces, and put it in a pot with the red dates and rock sugar. Add 6 bowls of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce to low heat and simmer for another half an hour before turning off the heat.

Red Dates Boiled with Eggs

Rock Sugar, Red Date, and Longan Boiled Eggs

Boil red dates with longan in rock sugar water. When the dates and longan are soft, crack an egg into the pot; continue to simmer over low heat until the egg is cooked. Red dates, longan, and rock sugar all have blood-tonifying effects, and the resulting eggs are very nourishing.

Red Dates Soaked with Ginger

Goji Berry, Ginger, Red Date, and Rock Sugar Water

Red date and ginger tea has a good effect on nourishing the stomach. After grinding licorice, cloves, and agallochum into powder and adding a little salt, take 15-25 grams each time and decoct or soak it with red dates and ginger as a substitute for tea, several times a day. It has the effects of nourishing blood, strengthening the stomach, and calming the mind.

Red Dates as Tea

Longan and Red Date Tea

Blackening red dates by stir-frying and then steeping them as tea can treat stomach cold and stomach pain. If goji berries are added, it becomes a tea to nourish blood and qi, suitable for people who use their voices frequently, such as teachers and sales clerks.

Health preservation is very important in our daily lives. Red dates are a nourishing food rich in nutrients and have many health benefits for the body.